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Transgender Tapestry, a run of 13 magazines spanning 1983 to 2002, trace the editorial and political development of a major U.S. transgender periodical from the Tiffany Club era of "the magazine for persons interested in transvestism & transsexualism" to the later IFGE-era language of "Celebrating the Diversity of Gender Expression." Issue 40 (1983) grounds the early publication in community infrastructure through "A HOUSE, What it means," "Special Report: Provincetown Outing 1983," and "NO NAME: Coping with the use and mis-use of labels," while Issue 74 (Winter 1995) announces the title shift to Transgender Tapestry and pairs that change with cover lines on Rachael Pollack, "The SRS Surgeon Crisis," and "Hunks in Frocks: The New Drag Films." The later issues in this run extend that documentary range into debates over Stonewall memory, spouses' and wives' rights, intersex politics, hate crimes, Sylvia Rivera, and anti-violence discourse, all within the publication history of a magazine founded by Merissa Sherrill Lynn and renamed beginning with Issue 74 in Winter 1995. Tapestry / Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: Tiffany Club and International Foundation for Gender Education, 1983-2002. Archive of 13 issues. The run preserves multiple title states, including The TV-TS Tapestry, Tapestry Journal, and Transgender Tapestry, and several issues retain strong cover copy and interior editorial matter that show the magazine's changing terminology, subject matter, and intended readership across two decades. [1] Lynn, Merissa Sherrill and Delores Carter, eds. The TV-TS Tapestry. Wayland, Massachusetts: Tiffany Club, 1983. Issue 40. [2] Lynn, Merissa Sherrill, ed. The TV-TS Tapestry. Massachusetts: Tiffany Club, 1991. Issue 59. [3] Lynn, Merissa Sherrill and Vivian D. Allen, eds. The TV-TS Tapestry Journal. Massachusetts, Fall 1994. Issue 69. [4] Allen, Vivian D., ed. The TV-TS Tapestry Journal. Massachusetts, Winter 1995. Issue 70. [5] Lynn, Merissa Sherrill, ed. The TV-TS Tapestry Journal. Massachusetts, Summer 1995. Issue 72. [6] Allen, Vivian D., ed. The TV-TS Tapestry Journal. Massachusetts, Fall 1995. Issue 73. [7] Lynn, Merissa Sherrill, ed. Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Winter 1995. Issue 74. [8] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Summer 1997. Issue 79. [9] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Fall 1997. Issue 80. [10] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Summer 1999. Issue 87. [11] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Fall 1999. Issue 88. [12] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Winter 2000. Issue 92. [13] Transgender Tapestry. Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, Summer 2002. Issue 98. These 13 issues span transgender community debates across two decades of change: early issues address naming, labels, and community formation through pieces such as "A HOUSE, What it means" and "NO NAME: Coping with the use and mis-use of labels," while the renamed Transgender Tapestry moves into explicitly political and institutional subjects including "The SRS Surgeon Crisis," "The First National Gender Lobby Day," "From Stonewall, the Rebellion to Stonewall, the Movie," "The GID Controversy," "Disposable People," "Remembering Our Dead," "Focus: Intersex," "GenderPAC in Washington," "Intersex Advocacy," "Jennifer Levi, Attorney for Gender Justice," and "The Transgender Civil Rights Project." Across these issues, the magazine records the shift from the Tiffany Club's earlier "tv-ts" and "transsexualism" framework to the broader transgender politics formalized by the title change at Issue 74 in Winter 1995. The later numbers coincide with the consolidation of transgender rights organizing in the 1990s and early 2000s: GenderPAC lobb.
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